Awakening to the Adriatic.

On the wildly romantic Adriatic peninsula of Punta scale grows a giant holiday complex approached with luxury and family hotels Giant Hamam and self-sufficient supply. The ambitious project is a sign: Croatia emancipated itself from its image as a cheap holiday destination.

 

Zadar - Larger families with children, students, seniors and young lovers in the past decades as a holiday destination Croatia driven - often by car. All together, the little purses, for the "best weeks of the year" was available. As the foreign tourists, including the Offer: Only 14 percent of bed supply was in quality hotels. The vast majority were in neighborhoods with modest private campgrounds or satisfied.

But those days are gone. Also in Croatia - with a spectacular coastline of 1700 kilometers from the natural abundance presented - can be demanding guests now come at their expense.

Over the past three to four years, a hotel in Croatia landscape, including the discerning holiday-makers from Istria in the north to Dubrovnik in the south of the Adriatic Sea is now a dense network of four-star hotels.

Tourism is the main industry

Valamar has 22 hotels and eight apartment facilities, the largest foreign tourism enterprises in Croatia. The Austrian owners have abgewirtschaftete equipment from the seventies and modernized a network of four-star hotels set up. Their flagship is the new "Valamar Lacroma Resort" in Dubrovnik. The "President" hotel overlooking the sea and the Elafite Islands in the north and Poreč in the "Diamond" and "Tamaris" have become among foreign guests made a name.

In 2008, nine million foreigners visited the Croatian coast. A tight-thirds of them came from Germany and Austria. The guests from beyond the borders flushed together with the two million domestic tourists for more than seven billion euros in cash. Meanwhile, the tourism, with a quarter share of the gross domestic product by far the most important industry moulted.

Nevertheless, the beaches, even in high season is not populated by masses. There are only about 120,000 hotel and 440,000 private beds. There are 200,000 parking spaces in good camping facilities. With few exceptions, especially in Istria, Croatia has mostly cliffs. Thus, the natural limits to investors, following the example of other Mediterranean countries to establish concrete deserts.

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That tourism still has a great future, show the latest investment by foreign companies. Recently, for example, runs the "Softopening" said step-by-step opening of the Kempinski Adriatic "in Savudrija at the extreme northwest tip of Istria, practically across from Venice. The "five-star golf and Spahotel aims with the first 18-hole golf course in Croatia points. One trick is to its own wedding chapel. Already three years ago has a Hilton hotel in Dubrovnik, its doors open.

Artificial Ferienregion for 210 million euros

By far the most ambitious project seeks just the Tyrolean Falkensteiner Michaelerplatz-group to the wildly romantic peninsula of Punta Skala in the Adriatic city of Zadar. With investments of 210 million euros to be 30 hectares with 1.6 km of natural beach holiday a whole region. "Mixed approach" is the magic formula, says manager Gerhard Mans Bart: There is a family hotel just opened, a spring-ready in the coming five-star luxury hotel and 187 apartments. The 40 to 100 square meter apartments can be rented or purchased.

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The complex includes a saltwater pool, in which "the Dead Sea postpositive" is a giant hamam with ten-meter high ceilings, 6000 square meter spa area, change gears and water everywhere, bright rooms and ocean views from almost every room. Because the car-free holiday landscape is disappearing, the mobile sub-sets in the garage. The desalination plant, sewage treatment and electricity production to guarantee the operation, even if it is one of the feared loss of local businesses should be. "We are at least three days Vollbelegung self-sufficient," says manager's beard.

In Croatia, it has around the millennium change dozens windy privatization of the old hotels from communist times, where. The buyers did not concern the improvement of tourist offer, but a quick profit. The disinterest of the rut and when the workers from the era of socialism worked more as a brake than as an engine for the industry. Only the unique combination of Croatian landscapes and proven expertise hotel opens new prospects now tourism.